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effrontery

/ih-fruhn-tuh-ree/US // ɪˈfrʌn tə ri //UK // (ɪˈfrʌntərɪ) //

媚俗,媚态,媚术,媚俗之心

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ef·fron·ter·ies.

    • : shameless or impudent boldness; barefaced audacity: She had the effrontery to ask for two free samples.
    • : an act or instance of this.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounnerve, boldness

Examples

  • Last July in Moscow, Magnitsky was given a posthumous punishment for his effrontery by being put on trial for tax evasion.

  • Without real and ingenious effrontery there is not doing anything at court.

  • She had the effrontery to hold the baby up, with his little naked legs kicking in Tanqueray's face.

  • How dared he have the effrontery to intrude his unclean carcass betwixt the wind and our nobility?

  • The old Bohemian was there, in a humble attitude, little conformable with the effrontery natural to his race.

  • Some of the senators doubted that the President had such "daring effrontery" as to ask for such power.